The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

Jarome Iginla signed with the Bruins on Friday after he expressed interest through his agent a day earlier in joining Boston.

Iginla's agent Don Meehan contacted Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli on Thursday evening about signing with the Bruins. Chiarelli was speaking with Daniel Alfredsson at the time.

"I raised my eyebrows and said, 'Really?' " Chiarelli said.

By Friday evening, a deal was done with Iginla that brought him to Boston. It's for one year with a base salary of $1.8 million and "attainable bonuses" according to Chiarelli that are worth up to another $4.2 million.

Iginla knew he wouldn't be re-signing with Pittsburgh after the season because the Penguins are close to the salary cap and had several big names to extend.

Iginla had heard good stories about the Bruins from former Flames teammates and ex-Bruins Andrew Ference and Chuck Kobasew. He nearly joined Boston a week before the trade deadline and then opted for Pittsburgh instead.

"At the time Pittsburgh was rolling, they were really on a roll, and at the time at the deadline, I thought, believed it was a great chance to win," Iginla said. "We did make the final four, it was a great experience with the Pittsburgh organization. We would have liked to have gone further, but we ran into the Bruins. This time around, looking at it, with the Bruins I wasn't sure it was going to be an opportunity and how the Bruins felt, but thrilled that it's a chance."

A few other notes:

- The Bruins are allotted $4.8 million in bonuses as protection against the cap. With Iginla at $4.2 million in potential bonuses and other players holding them as well, there's a chance the Bruins will go over the limit.

Whatever amount they go over by will count against the salary cap in 2014-15. However, the cap is expected to go up that year.

- Chiarelli said the Bruins are "very close" to extending Patrice Bergeron and Tuukka Rask. Rask is currently a restricted free agent and Bergeron has one year left on his contract.

Both are due for long-term deals at premium cap hits.

- On not re-signing Anton Khudobin, Chiarelli said it was a matter of timing and wanting to lower the cap hit for the backup goaltender. Khudobin signed a one-year, $800,000 deal with Carolina.

The Bruins turned around and inked Chad Johnson from Phoenix for one year and $600,000. That would indicate Johnson is the favorite over Niklas Svedberg to play behind Rask; Svedberg has a $1 million cap hit.

- The Bruins aren't expecting to make any more free agent signings in the near future.